No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.